Olsson Hitchcock à la Carte

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7602-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

In this study of Alfred Hitchcock's two television series, Jan Olsson demonstrates how Hitchcock created a personal brand build on his large body, gastronomical proclivities, and teh manipulation of bodies and food, which allowed him to mark is creative oeuvre as strictly his own.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsson, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. A Body for All Seasons 1

1. Feeding the Legend 13

Interlude 1. Tasty Bodies 63

2. Smaller Screen, Bigger Brand: Hosting "Hitchcock" 69

Interlude 2. Double Hosting 109

3. Hitchcockian Reflections: Traces, Proxies, Doubles, and Corpses 117

Conclusion. Violent Endings with a Twist 183

Appendix. Director Credits for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 215

Notes 219

Selected Bibliography 245

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. He is the coeditor of Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition, also published by Duke University Press.